Price, Leontyne

LC control no.	n 82003106
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Price, Leontyne *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Price, Mary Violet Leontyne
Biography/History note	Individual was a Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee, a Spingarn Medal awardee and a Grammy awardee.
Associated country	United States
Located	Wilberforce (Ohio) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1927-02-10
Place of birth	Laurel (Miss.)
Affiliation	Wilberforce University Juilliard School of Music San Francisco Opera Wiener Staatsoper Teatro alla Scala Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Sopranos (Singers)
Found in	Barber, S. Hermit songs [SR] 1955: label (Leontyne Price, soprano) New Grove dict. of opera (Price, (Mary Violet) Leontyne; b. Feb. 10, 1927, Laurel, MS; American soprano) African American National Biography, accessed March 9, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Price, Leontyne; Mary Violet Leontine Price; opera singer; born 10 February 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, United States; BA in voice from Wilberforce College, Ohio (1948); studied at Juilliard School of Music, New York City (1948-1952); casted in the revival of all-black American classic, Four Saints in Three Acts, staged in New York and Paris (1952); became the first black prima donna to appear in a major production of opera on television, Puccini's Tosca on NBC (1955); performed at San Francisco Opera (1957), Vienna State Opera (1958), La Scala (1960), and Metropolitan Opera (1961-1985); awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1965), and at least eighteen Grammy Awards; made history performing in the first nationally televised concert series from the White House (1978))